Mark Sloan
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The idea is to save your media files to a different HD than your boot HD. If you only have 1 HD then there will be little difference whether you store it on your Desktop or not.
But if you are storing to your Desktop you might not be organizing your clips very well. Take some time to plan a file / folder strucutre that will help you in the long run.
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Who knows? You can try a find, or try running the installer again and see where it defaults to.
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Hm. Scratch the Metrowerks thing, they are no longer updating the Mac IDE with the move to Intel…
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What information do you want off of those Hard Drives? Just file paths and names?
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With its BSD Unix underpinning you can just use the terminal, emacs or vi and run gcc from the command line all right out of the box. If you install XCode you will have an integrated development environment (IDE) to work with that will help you keep code organized and target different platforms and use different languages. You have access to C, C++, Java, Objective-C and other script like things like Perl, PHP, etc.
In short, go nuts.
Metrowerks is a long time mac developer, and used to be THE place to go for development tools, but now XCode is a very viable option.
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Probably not. The point of iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband and iDVD aren’t meant for professionals. I don’t see them changing that. They will improve performance and add features but their target audience is not experts.
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What does “quitting too fast” mean? What you describe sounds like it could be anything, so more information would help… Is it only when using RAM hungry apps like FCP or DVDSP? Does it happen randomly too, or just when quitting applications?
Do the tools you’ve used find anything wrong with your system? Have you done a complete sector check of your HD to make sure parts of it haven’t gone bad?
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“So it makes sense to format your harddisc containing the system journaled.”
Exactly. Your media drives, if you erase them after each project and reformat shouldn’t be journaled. But if you have multiple projects that have long work schedules, you might want to sacrifice a little speed for file structure. Again, this is not enough though, back up your files! -
The windows issue, there are many ways to handle it, and OS 9 did a better job of it. But there are many places to read about UI ideas… so I won’t rant any longer! asktog.com is one…
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Just to be clear, this won’t save you from a hard disk going bad or anything, but it does help keep your system file system running more smoothly than before. With OS 10.3 and on, the performance hit is much smaller at about 2-5%. You can turn it on in 10.2.8 I think, but you have to use the terminal and the performance hit was something like 10-15% if I remember correctly.